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To: Gay State Conservative
Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, “the Angelina Jolie of her day,” was also an avid inventor and the person behind advances in communication technology in the 1940s that led to today's Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.


14 posted on 09/16/2020 12:23:30 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Magnum44
Yikes...smart and gorgeous! I like my women dumb and gorgeous.They're a little less intimidating that way! ;-)
16 posted on 09/16/2020 12:32:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
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To: Magnum44

Those of us in the Army who used SINCGARS radios knew that she invented the principle of `frequency hopping’ to defeat enemy direction finding & jamming.

IIRC, a inventor colleague of hers created the first radio with that capability.


17 posted on 09/16/2020 12:32:59 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: Magnum44

Hedy Lamarr was also the first actress to have an onscreen orgasm in the pre-code film Ecstasy.


25 posted on 09/16/2020 12:43:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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